56050 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 181 / Thursday, September 18, 2014 / Notices 

officials), pork producers, mill 

managers, slaughter facility personnel, 

and personnel from approved 

laboratories. 

Estimated annual number of 

respondents: 1,250. 

Estimated annual number of 

responses per respondent: 3.03. 

Estimated annual number of 

responses: 3,793. 

Estimated total annual burden on 

respondents: 2,118 hours. (Due to 

averaging, the total annual burden hours 

may not equal the product of the annual 

number of responses multiplied by the 

reporting burden per response.) 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for OMB approval. All comments will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 12th day of 

September 2014. 

Kevin Shea, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2014–22256 Filed 9–17–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2014–0078] 

Field Release of Diaphorencyrtus 

aligarhensis for the Biological Control 

of Asian Citrus Psyllid in the 

Contiguous United States; Availability 

of an Environmental Assessment 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of availability and 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: We are advising the public 

that a draft environmental assessment 

has been prepared by the Animal and 

Plant Health Inspection Service relative 

to the proposed release of 

Diaphorencyrtus aligarhensis for the 

biological control of the Asian citrus 

psyllid, Diaphorina citri, in the 

contiguous United States. We are 

making this environmental assessment 

available to the public for review and 

comment. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before October 20, 

2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov/

#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2014-0078. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Send your comment to Docket No. 

APHIS–2014–0078, Regulatory Analysis 

and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 

3A–03.8, 4700 River Road, Unit 118, 

Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. 

Supporting documents and any 

comments we receive on this docket 

may be viewed at http://

www.regulations.gov/

#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2014-0078 or 

in our reading room, which is located in 

room 1141 of the USDA South Building, 

14th Street and Independence Avenue 

SW., Washington, DC. Normal reading 

room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except 

holidays. To be sure someone is there to 

help you, please call (202) 799–7039 

before coming. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Shirley A Wager-Page ́, Assistant 

Director, Pest Permitting Branch, 

Registration, Identification, Permitting, 

and Plant Safeguarding, PPQ, APHIS, 

4700 River Road, Unit 133, Riverdale, 

MD 20737–1236; (301) 851–2323. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Asian 

citrus psyllid (Diaphorina citri; ACP), 

can cause economic damage to citrus in 

groves and nurseries by direct feeding. 

Both adults and nymphs feed on young 

foliage, depleting the sap and causing 

galling or curling of leaves. High 

populations feeding on a citrus shoot 

can kill the growing tip. 

ACP’s primary threat to citrus, 

however, is not as a direct plant pest, 

but as an efficient vector of the bacterial 

pathogen that causes citrus greening. 

Also known as Huanglongbing (HLB), 

citrus greening is considered to be one 

of the most serious citrus diseases in the 

world. HLB is a bacterial disease, 

caused by strains of the bacterial 

pathogen ‘‘Candidatus Liberibacter 

asiaticus,’’ that attacks the vascular 

system of host plants. The pathogen is 

phloem-limited, inhabiting the foodconducting tissue of the host plant, and 

causes yellow shoots, blotchy mottling 

and chlorosis, reduced foliage, and tip 

dieback of citrus plants. HLB greatly 

reduces production, destroys the 

economic value of the fruit, and can kill 

trees. Once infected, there is no cure for 

a tree with HLB. In areas of the world 

where the disease is endemic, citrus 

trees decline and die within a few years 

and may never produce usable fruit. 

ACP is currently present in Alabama, 

American Samoa, Florida, Georgia, 

Guam, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, 

the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto 

Rico, Texas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and 

portions of Arizona, California, and 

South Carolina. The Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is 

proposing to issue permits for the field 

release of a parasitic wasp, 

Diaphorencyrtus aligarhensis, to reduce 

the severity of infestations of ACP in the 

United States and retard the spread of 

HLB. 

APHIS’ review and analysis of the 

potential environmental impacts 

associated with this proposed release 

are documented in detail in an 

environmental assessment entitled 

‘‘Field Release of Diaphorencyrtus 

aligarhensis for the Biological Control of 

the Asian Citrus Psyllid in the 

Contiguous United States’’ (June 2014). 

We are making this environmental 

assessment available to the public for 

review and comment. We will consider 

all comments that we receive on or 

before the date listed under the heading 

DATES at the beginning of this notice. 

The environmental assessment may 

be viewed on the Regulations.gov Web 

site or in our reading room (see 

ADDRESSES above for a link to 

Regulations.gov and information on the 

location and hours of the reading room). 

You may request paper copies of the 

environmental assessment by calling or 

writing to the person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Please 

refer to the title of the environmental 

assessment when requesting copies. 

The environmental assessment has 

been prepared in accordance with: (1) 

The National Environmental Policy Act 

of 1969 (NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 

4321 et seq.); (2) regulations of the 

Council on Environmental Quality for 

implementing the procedural provisions 

of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500–1508); (3) 

USDA regulations implementing NEPA 

(7 CFR part 1b); and (4) APHIS’ NEPA 

Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part 

372). 

Done in Washington, DC, this 12th day of 

September 2014. 

Kevin Shea, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2014–22288 Filed 9–17–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Revision of the Land and Resource 

Management Plan for El Yunque 

National Forest, Puerto Rico 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Revise the 

Land and Resource Management Plan 

and prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement for El Yunque National Forest 

(El Yunque). 

SUMMARY: As directed by the National 

Forest Management Act (NFMA), the 


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